Mary Lloyd Weekley
January 25, 1917 - December 02, 2009
formerly of Inverness

Mary Lloyd Weekley, a longtime Tampa resident, died on Dec. 2, 2009 at Carriage Hill, a private nursing facility in Bethesda, Maryland, after a long illness. She was 92. Born and raised in Inverness, Florida, Mrs. Weekley was the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Strauss L. Lloyd and the granddaughter of Colonel and Mrs. Thomas P. Lloyd. Her grandfather, a lawyer and former Confederate soldier, and her grandmother, a talented musician and music teacher, were among the earliest settlers and founding families of Citrus County. She graduated from Citrus High School in 1934 as class valedictorian and moved to Tampa, where she attended Tampa Business College. She then went to work for a fruit juice company and for a period of time helped run the company’s New York City office.

In 1939 she married John Dunn Weekley, who was employed in the wholesale lumber business in Tampa and eventually founded J.D. Weekley Lumber Company and Pitch Pine Lumber Company. They shared many interests, including traveling in the U.S. and abroad and boating along the waterways of the west coast of Florida. Music was a focal point in their lives, as Mrs. Weekley was a talented pianist who enjoyed playing for family and friends. She especially loved to play ragtime music, some written by her father. They were avid opera fans and for many years traveled to Atlanta for the Metropolitan Opera season there. They were members of Palma Ceia United Methodist Church and belonged to Tampa Yacht and Country Club, Palma Ceia Golf and Country Club, the University Club, and Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla.

Throughout her life in Tampa, Mrs. Weekley was active in the community. For many years she was involved in education in various capacities, including serving two terms as president of Mitchell Elementary School PTA, one term as president of Wilson Junior High PTA, one as vice president of Hillsborough County Council of PTAs, and as lay member of the Hillsborough County Curriculum Committee. She was tapped to sit on the University of South Florida Foundation Board of Directors, serving as an officer, during the school’s early years. Her volunteer activities also centered on the University of Tampa where in 1983 she served on the Board of Trustees as president of Chiselers. She also sat on the Board of Directors of the University of Tampa Friends of the Library. In the area of health, in 1955 she was appointed by Mayor Curtis Hixon to a council charged with organizing the first Women’s Hospital Auxiliary at Tampa General Hospital, which itself was motivated by a League of Women Voters’ study that she chaired. In 1956-57 she chaired the Health Committee for the Community Coordinating Council of Hillsborough County, for which she received an award. In addition, she was co-chairman of the American Red Cross Annual Fund Drive house-to-house campaign and chairman of the American Cancer Society Annual Fund Drive, which led to her being elected lay member of the Florida District of the American Cancer Society. In 1957 she was chairman of a United Nations Day luncheon meeting in Tampa and acted as official hostess to Eleanor Roosevelt, who came to speak. Organizations, such as Chiselers, Chapter T PEO, and Rose Garden Circle, in all of which she served a term as president, were an important part of her life. She was also a member of the Shakespeare Club and the Delta Kappa Chapter of Delta Gamma Fraternity.

Survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Mary Lynn Weekley Parsons and Douglas Taggart Parsons, of Chevy Chase, MD; two grandsons, Michael Lloyd Parsons and his wife, Alissa, of Annapolis, MD, and Scott Minor Parsons of Charleston, SC; a sister, Virginia Lloyd Nichols, a niece, Cheryl Nichols Campbell and her husband, David, and two grandnephews, Andrew and Stephen Campbell, all of Cincinnati, OH. Her beloved husband, John, died in 1996.

A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM on Dec. 29th at the Lloyd family plot, Oak Ridge Cemetery in Inverness, Florida, under the direction of the Inverness Chapel of Hooper Funeral Homes. Memorial contributions can be made to The Chiselers, Inc., c/o The University of Tampa, 401 West Kennedy Blvd., Box 103F, Tampa 33606-1490 for restoration projects; or Chapter T PEO, c/o Claudette Lansrud, 4230 W. Morrison, Tampa 33629 for education philanthropy; or the USF Foundation, 12901 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MCD 70, Tampa 33612 (refer to Suncoast Alzheimer’s Gerontology Center).

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